The Prog Collective has participants including prog rock royalty from the likes of Asia, King Crimson, Yes and Porcupine Tree…

Based on a T.R.U. Story is the latest from serial mixtaper 2 Chainz, and corrals big time support from Kanye West, Drake and Nicki Minaj…

Guitar shredder Steve Vai welcomes Aimee Mann and The Voice favorite Beverly McClellan on The Story of Light…

Pop-punkers Yellowcard follow-up last year’s Top 20 hit album with Southern Air…

And two tribute albums round us out: Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac has MGMT, Best Coast, Marianne Faithfull and others covering all eras of Mac tracks…and Songs of the Century: An All-Star Tribute to Supertramp features members of The Doors, The Zombies, Yes, and Toto too, taking on classics including “The Logical Song” and “Give A Little Bit”.

On the Reissue Front…

Prog rock pioneer Mike Oldfield’s 1979 and 1980 albums Platinumand QE2each get the Deluxe Edition treatment, remastered and expanded with a CD’s worth of live performances…and a double-disc career retrospective arrives as well, Two Sides: The Very Best of Mike Oldfield…

Incubus celebrated their 20th Anniversary with six days of intimate and stunning performances in a rented gallery in downtown L.A., and those proceedings are covered in the CD/DVD combo Incubus HQ Live…

Chaka Khan’s One Classic Night: Greatest Hits Live houses 13 performances from a 2007 show, and is her first ever live album…